Last chance to see Galileo at USF

Posted Oct 7, 2011 by Lindsay Peterson

Updated Oct 7, 2011 at 02:42 PM

There’s still a chance to see USF alum Jack Holloway as Galileo at USF this weekend.

And why should you?

Because the 17th Century scientist was out there, and his struggles are as relevant today as they ever were.

Holloway as Galileo

The Life of Galileo, by Bertold Brecht, is the story of the brilliant thinker’s clashes with the Catholic Church. Its leaders didn’t like Galileo’s questions about whether the Earth really was the center of the universe.

Sound familiar?

It did to director C. David Frankel when he chose the play.

“There are clear connections to a lot of things happening in the biological sciences today….People worry are we getting ahead of our ability to deal with what we’re learning….Should science put a brake on or should we pursue discoveries just for the sake of discovering?”

The play kicks off an informal campuswide program called Science, Art and Culture: An Eternal Braid. Professors in theater, literature and language classes will be asking students to look at the relationship between science and the arts.

“The idea was to try to encourage a real interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary look at what C.P. Snow called the ‘two cultures’ and how they interact,” Frankel said.

“They’re both trying to make sense of the world.”

If you want to hear the words of Galileo trying to make sense of the world, check out the remaining performance times here.